Grand Jury Investigating John Edwards Expected to Report Soon

He was only hiding from himself when he lied and tried to cover up the affair and child.
Now he has to face himself and take a long look at himself and his conscience must be in torment.
His past as caught up with the present and it must scare him to death.

John Edwards has digged himself one of the biggest holes I've ever seen. He might as well live in the grand canyon. When he was approached about the mistress instead of being honest and coming clean about it all he denied it. He spent probably millions of dollars hiding her in a descreat location and going to hiddin hotels all of this was done while he was wife was fighting cancer. He had his assistent cover for him and lie. He kept digging and digging. Now that they have reason to believe that the funding didn't directly go to his campaign I believe now he will pay the price for everything he's done. He's been caught, denied of being vice president, seperated from his ex-wife and now he will have to go to the courts and face all that he has done and pay up for it.

When are hearing the candidates go on about what all they will do for us, we also need to know their character. John Edwards has none. Don't know if he ever had any or if he lost it when he thought he was the new John F Kennedy. That was a joke.
I wish him well, but only for his children. Other than that, he can just disappear along with his gold-digging gal..

The word is not tender hooks but tenterhooks.

A lot of men have affairs. Do we persecute all of them? Politics and government needs to get back on track and adhere more to the issues of the day such as unemployment, lack of jobs, lack of job security, no healthcare benefits, and the need for a complete overhaul on higher education and the lack of opportunities that present se many of our students who have wasted their efforts, time and money for nothing. John Edwards, I believe, may have been sensitive these issues. In the final analysis, I don't care about his personal life and no one is in a position to fully apprise me of what really happened. And, insofar as the monies are concerned, almost every campaigns raises questions as to how the funds are procured, spent, etc. -- if this much scrutiny is needed for John Edwards, then all presidential candidates should given the same scrutiny. I really wish that we could have a free election in which no candidate receives any funding at all and that the govt subsidizes all candidates insofar as televised speaking appearances are concerned. Something like that would erase any problems associated with campaign donations and how their spent.

It always fascinates me how sucessful politicians of all stripes TEND to forget where they come from and screw it all up either by financial wrongdoing or sexual/financial misconduct.The ancient Greeks called it Hubris.They believed those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make great.

so it will take this long for the current office holder 's practices to catch up with him?

He should be in jail for being an idiotic moron even if he didn't do anything illegal. Who in the sane world would think they could get by with having an affair and an illegitimate child while running for President??? This isn't about my politics or morals. He is not smart enough to be my political representative of any sort, certainly not my president!

Oh, and btw, Delay and Edwards need to go straight to jail, like any other American who breaks the law. Strip them of their government pensions and healthcare and let them die broke and without proper healthcare, just like the rest of we Americans.

I am a voting Republican and still have plenty of sympathy for John Edwards. Had his wife not been ill he may have divorced her. Had she not been dying more people may have come forward saying what an angel she was not. By dying she silenced the people that proclaimed how difficult it was, even in the beginning of his political career, to have Elizabeth around. Yeah I pity the man that didn't leave his sick, but mean wife and chose to find some happiness. He should have suffered alone with Elizabeth until she died or left her as she battled the disease that took her life. That would have been the honorable thing to do, but he didn't. So I am human enough to still have sympathy for him.